Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-10-26

4 America; tho most active, interpreting
geniOus. and thrifty of the Spanish
American race, aggressiFe, audacious
and arrogant, quick to perceive, quicl
TO resent, fierce I'll disposition, cold
4 blooded, and cruel as cannibal HI
| dreams Of conquest. He has only 8
strip of country along tile Pacific coast
30 narrow that there is scarcely room
enough to write its name upon tile
map, henlmed Iii on one side BY the
Bternal SHOWS that crown the CorsliI-
Ileras and on the other BY 6000 miles d
sea. He has been stretching himself
northward until he has stolen Ill The
sea-e0ast Of Bolivia, with her valuable
| nitrate deposits, all the gaano that be-
/ longed to Peru, and contemplates
taking actual possession of both those
republics soon. He has been reaching
/ southwark by diplomacy, as lie did
/ northward by war, and under recent
treaty with the Argentine Republic
divided Patagonia with that nation,
taking to himself the control of that
valuable international highway, the
/ Strait Of Magellan, the unexplored
country between the Andes and the
4
the Pacific coast, whose resources are
unknown. BY securing the strait,
Chill acquired control of steam navi-
cation in the South Pacific, and has es-
/ tablished colony and fortress at
Punta Arenas, by which all vessels
must pass. Reposing TRANQUILITY now
in the enjoyment of the newly acquired
territory along the Bolivian and Pc
ruyian border, and deriving an enor-
| nous revenue from the export tax up
on nitrate, the Chillano eontemplates
| the internal Discussions of Peru, and
| waits anxiously for the time when he
can step. in as arbitrator, and, like the
| lawyer, take the estate that the heirs
are silly enough to quarrel over. 1t is
| but question of years when not only
Peru, but Bolivia, will become part
| of Chill, and the aggressive nation
will want to push her eastern boundary
back of the Andes, and secure control
of the sources of the Amazon, as she
has of the navigation of the strait.
The Chillanos lead the Southern
continent, and are the most powerful
of all the republics in America except
our own. Their statesmen are wise
and able, their people are Industrious
and progressive, and have that strength
of mind and muscle which is given
only to the men of temperate zones
There is q strong similarity between
the Chillanos and the Irish. Both have
the same wit and reckless courage,
the same love of country and patriotic
pride. Wherever Chillano goes he
carries his opinion that there never
was and never can be better land
than that in which he was born; and
although he may be refugee or an
exile he will fight in defence of Chill
at the drop of the hat. There is some
thing refreshing in his patriotism,
even if it be the most arrogant vanity.
Our people are becoming ashamed of
their Fourth of July, and the Deelara-
ton Of independence is the butt of
professional jokers. The Chillano will
cut the throat of man who will noG
celebrate with him the 18th Of Sep
TENDER, his independence Day, and
there is a law iii the country requiring
every house to have a flagstaff, to bear
the national colors ON Il banner by
day and a lantern by night, on the
anniversaries of the republic. All the
schools must use textbooks by native
authors, all the bands play the COM
positions of the native composers, and
visiting opera and concert singers have
to vary their performances by intro
ducing the songs of the country. 1t is
said that Frenci,man can never be
denationaiized. The same is true of
the Chillano. There has not been
successful revolution in Chill since
1889, and although there is nowhere q
more unruly aud discordant people.
nowhere more murders and other
serious crimes, in their love of country
the naughty Don and the patient peon,
the hunted bandit and the cruel soldier
are one.
As soldier the Chiliano is brave to
recklessness, and a sense of fear is I'M
known to him. He viii not endure
siege, nor can he be made to fight at
long range; but as soon as he sees the
enemy he fires one volley, drops his
gun, and rushes in with his .tcurvo."
His endurance is as great as his
courage, and no North American
Indian can travel so far without rest
or go so long without food OF water as
the Chillano peon '.Roto, as the mixed
race is called. AS the .sCholo" in
Peru is the descendant of the Spaniards
and the Incas, so is the "Roto" in
Chill the child of the Spaniard aud the
Araucanian Indians, the race of giants
with which the early explorers report
ed that Patagonia was peopled--
..menne of that biginess, as Sir
Francis Drake reported, ''that it
seemed the trees of the forests were
uprooted and were moving away"
They have the Spanish tenacity of pur-
pose, the Indian endurance, and the
cruelty Of both. Each soldier, in the
mountains or the desert, carries on his
breast two bmckskin bags. In one are
the leaves of the coca plant, in the
other powdered lime made of the ashes
of potato skins. The coca is the
strongest sort of tonic, and by
chewing it the Chillano soldier can
abstain from food or drink for a
week or ten days at stretch. The
Chillano soldier is not easily subjected
to discipline, and outvandals the
vandals in the destruction of property,
as the present condition of Peru will
prove He burns and destroys every
thing in his reach that has sheltered
an enemy. No authority can restrain
his hand. The awful scenes OF deyas-
tation that took place in Peru have
nothing to parallel them in the annals
of modern warfare. On the battle
fields nina-fenfbs of the dead were